Another Wonderful Inuit Caribou Antler bird handmade book drawn in graphite I believe

drawn in graphite I believe and perhaps erasable

putting an American spin on a British cruiser

Watercolor/gouache color is very rich

with a little staining her and there but structurally very sound and stable and super sweet

and then tapering as it extends downward along the side of the basket

Another Wonderful Inuit Caribou Antler bird handmade book drawn in graphite I believeTheres a dealer in New Hampshire I visit who has been putting these Inuit carved antler birds out one at a time for me to find, and this is the last of them. I love how these are all about the natural curves of the antler bone, Caribou I believe, with minimal interventions to render them as birds. I find this one a great combination of elegant and awkward, with its long neck, inked eyes and hooked beak reminding me very much of a root head decoy,